Neofabricia

Neofabricia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Rosids
Order: Myrtales
Family: Myrtaceae
Genus: Neofabricia
Joy Thomps.
Synonyms[1][2]
  • Fabricia Gaertn. 1788, illegitimate homonym, not Adans. (1763) (Lamiaceae), nor Scopoli (1777) (Fabaceae), nor Thunb. (1779) (Hypoxidaceae).
  • Leptospermum sect. Fabricia Benth. & Hook.f.

Neofabricia is a genus of shrubs and small trees in the Myrtaceae family, first described as a genus in 1788, with the name Fabricia. This, however, was an illegitimate homonym, in other words, someone had already used the name to refer to a very different plant. Therefore, this group in the Myrtaceae was renamed Neofabricia.[3][4] The entire genus is endemic to Queensland.[5]

species [5]
  1. Neofabricia mjoebergii (Cheel) Joy Thomps.
  2. Neofabricia myrtifolia (Gaertn.) Joy Thomps.
  3. Neofabricia sericisepala J.R.Clarkson & Joy Thomps.

References

  1. Australian Plant Name Index
  2. Tropicos, search for Fabricia
  3. Thompson, Joy. 1983. Redefinitions and nomenclatural changes within the Leptospermum suballiance of Myrtaceae. Telopea 2(4): 380
  4. Clarkson, J.R. & Thompson, J., (1989) A revision of the genus Neofabricia (Myrtaceae). Telopea 3(3): 291-300
  5. 1 2 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
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